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Arakanese Urban Refugees Protest UNHCR in Bangladesh
Narinjara News | Monday, June 22, 2009
By Takaloo, Cox’s bazar: Arakanese urban refugees taking shelter in Bangladesh staged a protest on Sunday outside the UNHCR office in southern Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar, for alleged discrimination and neglect against the refugees. more +
First woman chairperson of Arakanese organization
Narinjara News | Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Dhaka: For the first time an Arakanese woman has become the chairperson of an Arakanese organization, which has both men and women. more +
Burma to sell electricity to Bangladesh
Narinjara News | Friday, June 12, 2009
By Tun Kyaw, Dhaka: A Burmese company is keen on setting up a 500 MW hydroelectric power plant in Arakan State and export electricity to Bangladesh. This was announced by Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni yesterday. more +
Ancient boat unearthed in Myanmar
www.chinaview.cn | Thursday, June 04, 2009
A boat, believed to be an ancient one, has been unearthed in Mrauk Oo, Myanmar's Rakhine state in the western part, the local 7-Days News reported Thursday more +
Authority imposes restrictions on monks travelling in Arakan
Narinjara News | Monday, May 25, 2009
Monks in Arakan State are currently facing severe restrictions from the authority, whenever they travel to Rangoon or Burma proper from Arakan State, a monk said. more +
Arakanese women leave state to find work
Narinjara News | Friday, March 06, 2009
Economic hardship in Arakan State is forcing many women to leave for the eastern side of Burma to work as day labourers in a company which is seeking employees from Arakan. more +
Youth Trial 7 Months After Incident
Narinjara News | Friday, February 06, 2009
24-year-old Tun Aye Kyaw from the central Arakan town of Min Bya is scheduled to appear before the Min Bya Township court on 4 June for an incident that took place in the town seven months ago. more +
Immigration Authority Makes Arakanese to Burmese on National ID Cards
Narinjara News | Monday, May 18, 2009
The immigration department has issued new national ID cards to Arakanese nationals in Ann Township for the 2010 election, but identified their race on the cards as Burman rather than Arakanese, said a teacher from Ann. more +
White Crow Discovered in Sittwe
Narinjara News | Tuesday, May 19, 2009
In Sittwe, the capital of Arakan State, an all white crow was discovered in a tree nest by a local resident recently. more +
Arakanese democracy activists demand release of Aung San Suu Kyi
Narinjara News | Monday, May 18, 2009
Arakanese democracy activists in exile demonstrated against the Burmese military junta on Monday in two different places in Bangladesh, for putting democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on trial in the notorious Insein prison in Burma. more +
National ID cards for Hindu community in Arakan
Narinjara News | Friday, May 22, 2009
The Hindu community in Arakan has been issued national ID cards by the Immigration Department since the beginning of this month. more +
Junta Trying to Erase Non-Burman Identities, Say Ethnic Groups
The Irrawaddy | Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Burma's military junta is carrying out a policy of "Burmanization" in areas under its control, using land confiscation and intermarriage, sometimes by force, to dilute ethnic identities, according to a new report by three exiled ethnic groups released on Tuesday. more +
Buddha Purnima today
The Independent | Friday, May 08, 2009
Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, will be celebrated across the country today with due religious fervour. The occasion marks three most important events in the life of Buddha his advent, enlightenment and nirvana-about 2,500 years back. more +
Three Village Leaders Abducted by Armed Group
Narinjara News | Thursday, April 30, 2009
Three village leaders, including two village chairmen, were abducted by an unidentified armed group on the western Burmese border on 24 April, after the group entered Pri Zaw Village on the border to extort money, said a relative of one of the victims. more +
An Arakanese girl raped in Maungdaw
Narinjara News | Thursday, April 30, 2009
An Arakanese girl in Maungdaw was raped by a Burmese officer. more +
12th Convention of Rakhine Buddhist Welfare Association held in Bangladesh
Narinjara News | Friday, April 03, 2009
A two-day convention of the Rakhine Buddhist Welfare Association was held from 27th to 28th March, 2009, in the conference hall of its head office in Cox's Bazaar, a southern coastal town with a large Rakhine population in Bangladesh. more +
Army Uses Dynet People for Forced Labor
Narinjara News | Friday, April 03, 2009
Dynet tribal people in northern Arakan have been forced by the Burmese army to work at many government construction sites and on other projects without any pay, said a tribal leader. more +
Bangladesh Eyes Farmlands in Arakan
Narinjara News | Friday, April 03, 2009
Bangladesh is eager to lease land in Burma’s western Arakan State for cultivation and agricultural farming. more +
Two Burmese Settlers Raped and Killed
Narinjara News | Monday, March 16, 2009
Two young female settlers from Burma proper were raped and killed by a group of miscreants in a model village in Buthidaung Township 80 miles north of the Arakan State capital, Sittwe, said a police official on the condition of anonymity. more +
Press Release- Protests in Front of the Chinese Embassy in Asia
ANC | Thursday, February 19, 2009
Hundreds of Arakanese from Union of Burma will hold protests in front of the Chinese embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Dhaka, and New Delhi on February 19, 2009 at 1.00 PM to urge the Chinese government to stop a proposed gas pipeline from Arakan State to Yunnan Province. more +
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